The Botanic Garden

published 1795

William Blake

Artist, British, 1757 - 1827

Erasmus Darwin

Author, British, 1731 - 1802

Anker Smith

Artist, British, 1759 - 1819

Thomas Holloway

Artist, British, 1748 - 1827

Frederick P. Nodder

Artist, British, active 1773 - probably 1800

Samuel Alken

Artist, British, 1756 - 1815

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    2-part work bound in 1 vol: 21 etched and engraved plates, of which 6 were engraved by Blake

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    page size: 27.5 x 20.5 cm (10 13/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1983.103.11

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Associated Artworks

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Hope Attended by Peace, Art, and Labor / Fettered Slave

Thomas Holloway, Anker Smith, Thomas Holloway, Frederick P. Nodder, Samuel Alken

1795

Dionaea Muscipula

Frederick P. Nodder, Anker Smith, Thomas Holloway, Frederick P. Nodder, Samuel Alken

1794

Cupid with Torch and Flower

Thomas Holloway, Anker Smith, Thomas Holloway, Frederick P. Nodder, Samuel Alken

1794


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Professor William B. O'Neal [1907-1994], Charlottesville, VA; gift 1983 to the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1921

  • Keynes 1921, 108.

1959

  • Easson & Essick 1972-79, XXXVI pl.2(1).

  • Easson & Essick 1972-79, XXXVI pl.3(1).

  • Easson & Essick 1972-79, XXXVI pl.4(1).

  • Easson & Essick 1972-79, XXXVI pl.5(1).

  • Easson & Essick 1972-79, XXXVI pl.1(1).

  • Easson & Essick 1972-79, XXXVI pl.6.

  • Easson & Essick 1972-79, XXXVI.

1977

  • Bentley, G.E., Jr. Blake Books. Oxford, 1977: 450 C pl.2.

  • Bentley, G.E., Jr. Blake Books. Oxford, 1977: 450 C pl.3.

  • Bentley, G.E., Jr. Blake Books. Oxford, 1977: 450 C pl.1.

  • Bentley, G.E., Jr. Blake Books. Oxford, 1977: 450 C pl.4.

  • Bentley, G.E., Jr. Blake Books. Oxford, 1977: 450 C pl.5.

  • Bentley, G.E., Jr. Blake Books. Oxford, 1977: 450 C.

  • Bentley, G.E., Jr. Blake Books. Oxford, 1977:450 C pl.6.

Inscriptions

Title page: The / BOTANIC GARDEN. / A POEM, / IN TWO PARTS. / PART I. / CONTAINING / THE ECONOMY OF VEGETATION. / PART II. / THE LOVES OF THE PLANTS *


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